Ruminations (Expanded Edition) [2LP]

• This was available during the 2021 Record Store Day.
• Limited to 4000 copies globally.
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Conor Oberst’s critically acclaimed 2016 solo album, Ruminations, will be released in a newly remastered double-LP expanded edition—featuring five bonus tracks, four previously unreleased, as well as an etching on side D. The five bonus tracks were recorded during the Ruminations sessions; while full band versions of them were released on the 2017 companion album Salutations, these solo acoustic recordings are now included for the first time on Ruminations.Ruminations was recorded in the winter of 2016, when Oberst found himself hibernating in his hometown of Omaha after living in New York City for more than a decade. He emerged with the unexpectedly raw, unadorned album, which NPR called one of his “most personal records … a collection of brave, dark songs … unmistakably moving and contain[ing] some of Oberst's best lyrics and imagery.” The UK’s Sunday Times further said it was his “rawest album yet …. Political and very, very personal,” calling Oberst “one of the best songwriters around.”

TRACKLISTING

SIDE A
01 Tachycardia
02 Barbary Coast (Later)
03 Gossamer Thin
04 Counting Sheep
05 Mamah Borthwick (A Sketch)

SIDE B
01 The Rain Follows the Plow
02 A Little Uncanny
03 Next of Kin
04 You All Loved Him Once
05 Till St. Dymphna Kicks Us Out

SIDE C
01 Overdue
02 Too Late to Fixate
03 Afterthought
04 Empty Hotel by the Sea
05 Napalm